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Use afplay

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Login to the GUI as root.
Open system preferences and under accounts delete the admin account.
Now open up terminal and type [i]rm /private/var/db/.AppleSetupDone[/i]

The next time the system is booted it will go thru the setup screen.

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It is actually easier than creating your own plist file.
In Workgroup Manager select the group that you want to apply the preference to, then click the preferences tab. One the you clicked the preferences tab click on the Finder option. Inside the finder option you can select to use simple finder and this will prevent users from browsing the network in the finder, you can also select the command tab inside the finder options and there you can choose to not allow the connect to server option from the go menu.

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Thank you for the advice.
It is appreciated.

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From what you described the issue appears to be that your ISP is blocking you from running a SMTP server.
If you are running this out of a home, most likely you connect to your ISP through a residential connection.
Many ISP’s block residential accounts from running SMTP servers. In fact I have had this same problem. In order to run an SMTP server out of your home you will need to upgrade to a business level connection or try to relay outgoing mail through your ISP’s SMTP server. With a business level connection your ISP will not block you from running a SMTP server.
The reason that it went through when you sent mail to your own account on your server is that the smtp connection never went through your ISP’s server instead it went directly from your device to the server and then back to your device.
I hope this helps.

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About 10 minutes after I posted this I realized that forwarders can be added right from server admin, under the DNS then Settings tab.
I guess the documentation on the OpenDNS web site needs to be updated.
Thanks for those who looked at this. I hope this information is helpful to others.

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Thanks for information about your script. Unfortunately I cannot use it since I am OD based.
My one remaining question is, how can I find the location of a users home directory using the dscl command.
In your script you used the following…
[quote]/usr/bin/dscl localhost -read /Active\ Directory/All\ Domains/Users/$USER SMBHome | /usr/bin/sed -e ‘s/\\\/\\//g’ | /usr/bin/awk ‘{print $2}[/quote]
Is there an equivalent of this for Open Directory based system.
Thanks

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Thank you to those who looked at this, but I figured it out none the less.

I used the following lines to access the network directories.

mkdir /Volumes/SharePoint
mount_afp afp://username:[email protected]/SharePoint /Volumes/SharePoint

The I can access the directories by working in /Volumes/SharePoint

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